Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e89e0d10d82055bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3c68cfccec9ff9566b342e2872e24f40 SHA-1: b360f97504b9e60c7a128bd596ae8a5b410f3dcd SHA-256: e89e0d10d82055bcc259619059758b5d7a197793ab4078a8034922ee837866e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foundations+of+computer+science+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/91782967186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/kogifubogasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/66587439860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/66496152310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/32454599867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fa40d9425---zulumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ac557c17d---xowanuxiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac193f5e2d4---vakorigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f37c079a8---19235585244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab78ce014bc---nopedemexupexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/tegidefenuwifuxevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/58469724664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/34497950453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/53457017981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mom6v6g9vt02obrv2m3pgn0m5/69550107792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec2162857c---kimapamuwewukedodadujutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3e1266491---21191872038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/ralaletusejopuzunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc097caec4---58522884602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/49980167902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5npc3e0mjg1g9iv8om0k3oche/basukupewapezijimudofefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608343ffab5c6---80298951739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/huq1ue095ja93jb35nbuaiahj1/15238540813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5c360ec02---77799235714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb58b8f1489d83cfbcc7b5c75eac191d/98314925371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t23c1lj5ekiud0msgej539n0if/rarajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11847 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 1290f2a943cf6edec502d534f2c62e8d410a43457b60231ce915a791f18a36b9
font_01_sfnt_off00013136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13136 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 8cf0d872bb86878a94d330d960451365c9e283f4fa28a980966fe7566901e578
font_02_sfnt_off00015f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1